sandbank
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3.2
- noun
- /ˈsændˌbæŋk/
- UK
:
banco de arena
- People come from miles around to watch the pros ride tubes, and heavy walls break on the unnervingly shallow sandbank.
Examples
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His eyes glinting, the little fellow repeated the story I already knew: a huge ship had run aground on a sandbank, not far from there.
Fiction book (1995) -
The first-ever 3-D map of the seabed off Dunwich showed that two-thirds of the medieval site is covered by thick sandbanks.
Academic text (2009) -
We are literally on a sandbank which is tiny in the middle of the sea.
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A sandbank that guards the shores of England.
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At the spreading mouth of the inlet, only a little current is present, guarded by a sandbank, shoals, and an island of reeds a hundred and fifty yards offshore.
Fiction book (1991) -
Over three days, they have worked their way past rapids and sandbanks, two men per flat-bottomed riverboat with an outboard engine behind, in order to get to their seasonal camp up in the virgin forest.
Fiction book (1996) -
Falling water levels expose sandbanks and silty shores, which in places are utilized both by local cultivators and by many Palaearctic and African birds from October to July.
Blog text (23) -
Sir Samuel Baker, on his voyage of exploration in 1864, remarked upon their presence in his book Albert N'yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, "I never saw such an extraordinary show of crocodiles as were exposed on every sandbank on the sides of the river."
Academic text (2003) -
We waded out onto the sandbank as the tide receded, exposing a stretch of golden sand.
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The sun setting over the sandbank created a stunning reflection on the water.
Synonyms
160
3.0
A raised slope of earth beside water or a road
82
7.0
A raised area of sand under water near the shore that can block boats
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2.8
A long narrow area of sand in a river or sea near the shore
A long narrow strip of sand in water that shows above the water
A strip of sand or mud along a riverbank that appears when the water is low
How Exposed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word sandbank is just sand + bank, where bank means 'a raised edge or pile', just like in riverbank or snowbank. So a sandbank is literally a 'bank' of sand, a raised area that can show at low tide or hide under the water and be dangerous to boats.